My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.
I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.